Window Maker Live

Nate Drake gets into the frame of things with Window Maker – a desktop experience reminiscent of a ’90s Mac.

Nate Drake

DEVELOPER Window Maker Developers WEB www.windowmaker.org LICENCE GPL 2.0+ In describing Window Maker, we can do no better than quote the homepage: “Window Maker is an X11 window manager originally designed to provide integration support for the GNUstep desktop environment, although it can run standalone. In every way possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface.” NeXTSTEP was an operating system based on Unix-derived BSD. After its developer’s acquisition by Apple in the mid-’90s, elements of the NeXTSTEP GUI were integrated into OS X. If you feel like a trip down memory lane, the good news is that Window Maker is compatible with virtually every Unix-based OS, including Linux, Solaris and BSD. If you’re used to installing via a graphical software centre, the bad news…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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